Back from the holidays, it's the Mormon News Report podcast! Today on the show, an historic temple goes down for renovations, the final tallies of the Giving Machines, holiday parties in Modesto can get a bit crazy, and finally, are Mormon women caught between work/education and religion? All that plus more on the Report!

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Finally Statehood! Utah's Struggles 1849 - 1896 by Edward Leo Lyman

HEADLINES

* Pacific Area Presidency Announce January National Fast (Australia Church Newsroom)

* Pacific Area Presidency Express Gratitude to All Who Participated in Special Day of Fasting (Australia Church Newsroom)

* Utah sees Latter-day Saint slowdown and membership numbers drop in Salt Lake County (Salt Lake Tribune)

* Mormon leaders reported a child molester’s confession. Now his wife is suing the church for $9.5 million (Washington Post)

* A Utah bill would require clergy to report child abuse confessed to them (Salt Lake Tribune)

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